Acts 17:16-21 3 Big Questions: 1) Where did we come from? 2) What - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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3 Big Questions: 1) Where did we come from? 2) What are we doing here? 3) Where are we going and how are we getting there? Secular Humanist Answers: 1) “Humans are an integral part of nature, the result of unguided evolutionary change.” 2) “Life’s fulfillment emerges from individual participation in the service of humane ideals.” 3) “…being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.”

3 Big Questions: 1) Where did we come from? 2) What are we doing here? 3) Where are we going and how are we getting there? Acts 17:22-31 Answers: 1) We come from Adam, God’s first creation. 2) We are to seek, reach out, and find God.

3 Big Questions: 1) Where did we come from? “What else does this craving, and this helplessness, 2) What are we doing here? proclaim but that there was once in man a true 3) Where are we going and how are we getting there? happiness, of which all that now remains is the empty print and trace? Acts 17:22-31 Answers: This he tries in vain to fill with everything around 1) We come from Adam, God’s first creation. him, seeking in things that are not there the help he 2) We are to seek, reach out, and find God. cannot find in those that are, though none can help, since this infinite abyss can be filled only with an infinite and immutable object; in other words by God himself.” (Blaise Pascals Pensees…page 75)

3 Big Questions: 1) Where did we come from? 2) What are we doing here? 3) Where are we going and how are we getting there? Acts 17:22-31 Answers: 1) We come from Adam, God’s first creation. 2) We are to seek, reach out, and find God. 3) We are all moving towards judgment, and we can be judged positively through repentance.